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Daniel Mertens is a political scientist who specializes in comparative and international political economy, financialization and institutional theory. In 2014, he obtained his PhD from the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and the University of Cologne with a study of household debt in the German political economy. He is further interested in the politics of the tax state as well as in the intersections of politics and finance in Europe and beyond.

Selected Publications

(forthcoming) “Borrowing for Social Security? Credit, Asset-based Welfare and the Decline of the German Savings Regime”. Journal of European Social Policy.